05.03.06

An Extra Measure of Grace

Posted in Uncategorized at 10:29 pm by Dee O'Neil Andrews

by Dee Andrews I have greatly neglected “Grace Notes,” my creation of last fall brought about by some incidents I experienced following the horrific Hurricane Katrina. For that I must apologize and am truly sorry I have not promoted this site more. It is one that deserves much attention, devotion and dedication because there are truly recipients too numerous to mention who we all come in contact with day by day who are grace notes in our lives. I have experienced so many of those myself in the past several weeks and I promise I will be back here to tell you of them. Those of you who are faithful followers of this altruistic site dedicated to those who enrich our live in so many small, yet outstanding, ways. But tonight I am here to ask for your “grace note” graciousness in praying for me that God will provide me with an extra measure of grace to endure this current trial I am in with the broken bone in my left foot that is not healing. I need your prayers so. So very much. This is hard for me to bear and a burden to me in not being able to serve others, beginning with my family, as I would like. So - if you drop by here and read these words - please remember me in your prayers and ask God that He will grant me the extra measure of grace I so need. I thank you for that. And the Lord thanks you. Those were the last words my father spoke to me before he died in the middle of the night when I was ministering to him at home while my mother slept. All I gave him was a cup of water. Yet he remembered what Jesus said in Matthew chapter 25. 31″When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. 32All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. 34″Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ 37″Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ 40″The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’ Thank you for your prayers. You are all - every one - grace notes to my life.

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